Clearlake council to interview planning commission candidates on Thursday

CLEARLAKE -- The Clearlake City Council will hold a special meeting on Thursday at 6 p.m. at City Hall to interview candidates for the three vacancies on the city planning commission.

According to City Manager Joan Phillipe, 11 people applied for the positions, including Carl Webb and Bill Perkins, who are seeking reappointment.

The third seat opened up when Gina Fortina-Dickson was elected to the council in November.

The council's plan is to put the candidates in a separate waiting area and then call them one-by-one into council chambers, asking all of them the same questions, which the candidates who haven't been interviewed yet won't be able to hear and prepare answers for.

The proceedings are open to the public.

Along with Webb and Perkins, applicants include Robert Coker, Cheryl Hutchinson, Charles O'Neill Jones, William Morgan, Karen Priest, Bruno Sabatier, Dirk Slooten, Jason Tapia and Michael Vandiver, according to Phillipe.